Dr. Michael R. Grigoni

Dr. Michael Remedios Grigoni is an assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University, where he teaches courses in religion, politics, and the history of Christianity. With research interests spanning religious ethics, political theology, and ethnographic theology, he uses ethnographic method to raise questions about religion, politics, and everyday life in the US American context. To this end, his current book project—tentatively titled The Gun in US American Christian Life: An Ethnographic Ethics—explores the relationship of guns to American Christianity and is based on fieldwork he carried out with Christian handgun owners and Christian anti-gun violence activists in North Carolina. His research has been supported by the Louisville Institute, the Hispanic Theological Initiative, and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University.

Ph.D., Duke University (Religion)

M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School (Theology)

M.A., University of Washington (Ethnomusicology)

B.A., Western Washington University (Philosophy)

“Inhabiting the Aftermath of Firearm-Caused Violence: Guns and the Practice of Vigil Keeping.” In Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics, 2^nd edition, edited by Christian Scharen and Aana Marie Vigen (forthcoming 2024).

“Guns in the United States.” Co-edited with Cory Mitchell. Special issue of Journal of Moral Theology (2023).

“Moral Theology and Guns in the United States: Staging an Encounter.” Journal of Moral Theology 12, special issue no. 2 (2023): 1–8.

“The Christian Handgun Owner and Just War.” Journal of Moral Theology 12, special issue no. 2 (2023): 108–32.

“Beyond the Church and the Poor: Expanding the Subject of Ethnographic Theology.” Ecclesial Practices 8, no. 1 (2021): 89–104.

• REL 103A: Introduction to Christian Traditions
• REL 332: Religion and Public Engagement
• REL 390/690: Christian Nationalism in the United States
• REL 390/690: Latinx Religious Thought
• FYS: God and Guns in America